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Prisons and patriots : Japanese American wartime citizenship, civil disobedience, and historical memory /
Prisons and Patriots provides a detailed account of forty-one Nisei (second-generation Japanese Americans), known as the Tucsonians, who were imprisoned for resisting the draft during WWII. Cherstin Lyon parallels their courage as resisters with that of civil rights hero Gordon Hirabayashi, well kno...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Asian American history and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: "A footstep in the sand of time"
- Lessons in citizenship
- Nisei wartime citizenship
- Loyalty and resistance
- Gordon Hirabayashi in the Tucson Federal Prison Camp
- The obligations of citizenship
- Prison and punishment
- Reunions, redress, and reconciliation
- Conclusion: The changing nature of citizenship.